Co-founder of the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain Vitalik Buterin expresses hope for the appearance of Verkle trees in the blockchain network. In his opinion, the integration of the data structure will lead to a significant improvement in the disk space used by betting nodes. According to information provided by the Ethereum co-creator, Verkle trees will enable the creation of many new types of functionality in addition to stateless clients, saving a significant amount of storage space required to run a node. In addition, Buterin is confident that Verkle trees will bring many benefits to the Ethereum blockchain.